Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 376
Actually, I migrated from Cobol, and never looked back.
There are man scary things about becoming a 'senior engineer'.
One of the most disturbing is supervising staff who were not born when you were cutting code for a living.
The guys I worked for when I went to work (1984) mostly had no formal qualifications, as they were hard to find in the 70's.
It's difficult coming to grips with the fact that you cannot stay ahead of the tech change wave. Tend to spend too much time doing what I am paid for instead.
The most scary thing is that after 20 years in a company, you know more and more about less and less (embedded 68302 development in C/C++). To go anywhere else would be very difficult based on that technical skillset. Soft skills, that gets harder too, as you start to be seen as out of date by the new guys.